HOPE not hate news round-up

BNP's Liverpool mayor candidate Mike Whitby arrested on suspicion of electoral fraud following ECHO investigation.THE BNP’s Liverpool mayor candidate was arrested at his North Wales home on suspicion of electoral fraud – following an ECHO investigation. Police broke down Mike Whitby’s front door today after he refused to cooperate for more...

Police are investigating allegations that a Coventry City season ticket holder made racist comments on Facebook. A complaint was made to Coventry City Football Club which then brought in the police. The investigation will look at comments allegedly made on the social networking site by a BNP local election candidate. more...

A Stevenage man accused of storming an office in central London - forcing the closure of one of the capital’s busiest shopping streets was a BNP candidate for the town at the last general election. Michael Green stood for the far right group in 2010 against borough council leader more...

Hidden race hate crimes involving “home-grown neo-nazis” are on the increase in the North East, according to a leading academic.Researchers said they have discovered a “growing attitude of intolerance and violence” in the region and expressed fears over the growing scale of the problem.The warning comes as a 29-year-old was more...

Tommy Robinson, of the English Defence League, is to be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party. Photograph: Mark Makela/Alamy The head of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, will be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party this week after proposing that the group adopt virulent anti-Islamic more...

A POLITICIAN’S eight-year-old daughter was “petrified” when anti Islamic protesters marched into the garden of their home with banners and banged on the window. Lancashire MEP Sajjad Karim’s home was targeted by the English Defence League (EDL) as part of a day of protests against “radical Islam” in the more...

A BNP supporter - whose terrifying collection of knives included a swastika-embossed dagger - was jailed for life today for slashing a lost Indian man’s throat on Christmas night. Sheet metal worker David Folley, 35, was convicted of murdering 36 year-old Inderjit Singh - known as ‘Raj’ to friends - more...

Two rival protests planned for Luton on 5 May are to be directed away from the town centre. Bedfordshire Police said the English Defence League (EDL), which was founded in the town, and Unite Against Fascism would not be allowed in the main shopping area. Businesses have complained previous protests more...

A PUB landlord pictured with his arm aloft in front of an Ulster flag says: ‘I was just pointing to a television screen.’ The photograph of Barry Smith has been circulated on the internet by campaigners who claim it appears to be a Nazi-style salute. But Mr Smith insists more...

The British Freedom Party are to appoint the English Defence League leader, Stephen Yaxley Lennon aka Tommy Robinson as deputy leader of the party according to sources within the Party. An alliance between the EDL and the BFP was announced in November last year but this is the first evidence more...

A former BNP candidate has been convicted of racially harassing his German neighbour – for the second time. Roy West, 47, put poppies and flags outside the home of neighbour Bernd Kugow on Armistice Day – then added to the display over the next four months. West then moved the more...

A FAR-RIGHT extremist has been arrested on Tyneside over allegations he accessed a social network site to threaten an "Oslo-style" bomb attack on Muslims. A 29-year-old from South Shields, named on internet websites yesterday as Kenny Holden, was arrested by officers on Saturday after race-hate posts were allegedly made on more...

THIS is one of the men arrested in an anti-terror swoop over alleged online race hate posts. Officers from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit carried out synchronised raids at 7.45am yesterday at houses in North Tyneside and County Durham. They took 43-year-old Darren Yateley, pictured, of Backworth, North Tyneside, more...

WIRRAL’S only BNP candidate says he “no longer has time for Nazism” after photographs emerged of him performing the infamous Heil Hitler salute. Joe Killen, who is standing in local elections for Birkenhead and Tranmere ward, was shown in a series of pictures with his right arm raised to imitate more...

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of publishing material to incite racial hatred. Computer equipment and mobile phones are thought to have been seized by police during early morning raids in Tyneside, Birkenhead, Barnsley, County Durham and Holloway, north London. Two other properties in Leeds and Knaresborough, North Yorkshire more...

Outspoken British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been criticised after claiming that parts of Portadown look like “Africa or China”. Referring to the growing ethnic minority in the Co Armagh town and other parts of Northern Ireland during a radio phone-in yesterday, the MEP claimed there was no “democratic more...

Together we can take back this national day from the Far Right St George’s Day is a great day to celebrate what’s good about our country. We have strong and diverse communities in which people from all backgrounds contribute to making our society stronger. We know that the overwhelming majority more...

THE British National Party candidate for Liverpool mayor Mike Whitby is only eligible to stand in the election because he rents a redundant pigeon shed in the city. Mike Whitby, who claims to put “local people first”, is also standing for a seat on Wrexham council on May 3. As more...

A BNP candidate has been caught posting vile racist comments and images of swastikas on a social networking website.Paul Telford, 52, a candidate in next month’s local elections, also posted a doctored photo of a baby in a Nazi uniform - complete with an Adolf Hitler-style moustache.Telford, who is running more...

After Scrapbook exposed sick comments from a UKIP councillor on banning unemployed people from voting, the party’s most high-profile new recruit has rushed to his defence, claiming Cllr Tom Bursnall “has a point”, going on to say it is “dangerous” to let unemployed people vote.
Having defected from the Tories, 23 more...

Anders Behring Breivik has no coherent ideology. Instead he appears to have picked bits of numerous rightwing philosophical strands and attempted to weave them together and present them as his own. Breivik comes from a culturally conservative Christian background, and this has shaped much of his political outlook. Into this more...

A decade on from the al-Qaida attacks on New York, the actions of Anders Breivik revealed a fundamental flaw in our approach to extremism. We had become accustomed to viewing the extreme right only as an electoral force – and dismissed its potential to enact mass violence. Breivik, however, has more...

Norwegian killer Anders Breivik sent an email to two Nuneaton and Bedworth election candidates just days before his killing spree, it has emerged. The e-mail addresses of Phillip Kimberley and Lee Millard were found on a list connected to Breivik – and it has been confirmed that they both received more...

LIVERPOOL mayoral candidate Peter Tierney was on the distribution list for the manifesto of Norway mass murderer Anders Breivik.The ECHO can reveal that the email address of Peter Tierney, who is standing for the National Front, was included on Breivik’s list.It is not known whether Tierney had been in communication more...

The former chair of Conservative Future has suggested that the unemployed should not be allowed to vote. Tom Bursnall, who recently defected from the Tories to UKIP on Windsor and Maidenhead Council, specifically targeted the unemployed people on his Pro Capitalist blog, asking:
“Should people on benefits be allowed to vote?”
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It's been a while since we last had one and as quite a lot has happened of late, it's probably about time that we had another recap of life in the sewers for the far-right. * While a lot of people were very excited about the link up last year more...

The most controversial man in British politics has been accused of preying on racial tensions in Antrim to recruit hardliners into the ranks of the British National Party.MEP Nick Griffin flew into the province on Saturday morning and after meeting with the party faithful in Carrick and Larne he hit more...

A Candidate in next month’s Calderdale Council elections has ben arrested. David Jones was arrested by police on Friday in Todmorden on suspicion of election fraud. The 26-year-old was questioned and released on bail pending further inquiries. Mr Jones is standing for the British People’s Party in the Todmorden more...

Supporters of the English Defence League, which was among groups that inspired the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, chant during a demonstration in Bradford. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images The international network of counter-jihadist groups that inspired Anders Behring Breivik is growing in reach and influence, according to a report more...

BNP leader Michael Coleman has appeared in court on racism charges. The former councillor will go on trial accused of causing racial harassment over a seven-month period. It is understood the allegations relate to comments made on the defendant's website. The 45-year-old lost his Meir North seat on Stoke-on-Trent more...

EDL leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been forced to deny supporting mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik after he was quoted praising the man who killed 77 people in a Norwegian newspaper. In an interview conducted in his home town of Luton, Mr Yaxley-Lennon called Breivik “smart” and said the murders he carried more...

Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League, has spoken positively about Anders Behring Breivik’s approach to his twin attacks. In an interview with Dagbladet he said justifying the attack on Utøya, which some conspiracy theory supporters allege was a place designed to support Fatah, would have been easier to more...

Police are investigating racist content that appeared on the Facebook page of a British National Party candidate in the city council election. Anti-Islamic and other racist images and slogans have appeared on the site of Dean Lowther, who is standing in Bracebridge ward. The Echo alerted Lincolnshire Police to the more...

A football hooligan who performed a Nazi salute and unveiled an English Defence League flag has been banned from football matches. Lincoln City supporter Peter Briggs, 19, was associated with several violent flare-ups at football matches between 2009 and February this year. He appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on more...

The British National Party is putting up only two candidates in council elections in West Yorkshire on May 3 – down from more than 70 at its peak four years ago. West Yorkshire was once hailed by the far-right party’s leader Nick Griffin as its “jewel in more...

No great mention of it from the British National Party (BNP),Britain’s premier fascist organisation, but the party is thirty years old today. Officially launched on 7 April 1982, the BNP emerged from a 1980 split from the once mighty National Front (NF). The NF imploded not long after the 1979 more...

AN elite cop had been carpeted last night after buying police badges from a notorious BNP activist. The officer ordered branded Metropolitan Police ID tags from a firm belonging to Martin Roberts — who has links to Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Roberts, an ex-organiser of the far-right BNP, boasted more...

The man who organised the peaceful, but noisy, march against Islamic extremism that preceded the attack on the mosque said he was not responsible for what happened. Dozens of chanting protesters, including teenagers, followed a giant red poppy from Hampton Wick into Clarence Street, waving English Defence League (EDL) flags, more...

A Leicestershire county councillor is being investigated after distributing a leaflet which criticised Muslims. Earlier this year, Graham Partner – who quit the BNP to sit as an independent – sent out a New Year message to voters in his Coalville division. It featured part of an article from a more...

THERE is a lot to be said for listing things in alphabetical order – as the names of election candidates are on ballot papers. It is a tried and trusted – and, frankly, obvious – formula to use. And it’s one which should have been used on a council leaflet more...

A British National Party member has controversially announced he will stand as a candidate for Liverpool's first directly elected mayor.Mike Whitby, the BNP's North West regional organiser, is standing for the far-right party as voters go to the polls on May 3.Mr Whitby will be given the opportunity to take more...

A STAFF member at a Worcester college was shocked when a member of the British National Party burst into her office with a camera in a row about the Union Flag. Rachel Gower, head of communications at Worcester College of Technology, returned to her office to find Carl Mason and more...

POLICE have confirmed they are investigating an event in which a racist mob making “sieg heil” salutes took over a Welsh pub for the night. As exclusively revealed in last week’s Wales on Sunday, neo-Nazis claimed they were going to put on a night of 2-Tone ska music at the more...

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